
The Spotlight function essentially “pins” a user as the primary active speaker for all participants in the meeting and cloud recordings. If you are using an ASL interpreter for a recorded Zoom session, make sure the meeting host “spotlights” the ASL interpreter’s video so it is captured in the recording. You can make your content more accessible by providing the documents, notes, and website links to attendees in advance.
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While Zoom’s screen sharing feature is enabled to be as accessible as possible for screen readers, sometimes sematic markup and full document content can be lost. Share screen share materials ahead of the session All meeting participants will be able to save the transcript if you enable this setting. txt file of the transcript in your meeting. Make sure to enable the “Save Captions” setting in your zoom account settings in to be able to save the. You can turn on Zoom’s automatic live transcription service to display a transcript in the side panel in-meeting. For more information on closed captioning in Zoom, click here. Right now Zoom doesn’t support automatic closed captioning of sessions in progress, but it does allow a few options with respect to closed captioning: (1) Either the host or another meeting attendee can type the closed captioning throughout the session OR (2) You can integrate a third party closed captioning service. You can integrate closed captioning into your Zoom sessions. Zoom Accessibility Tips Enable Closed Captioning To learn more about the accessibility features available in Zoom, please refer to Zoom’s Accessibility Features. Zoom includes multiple built-in accessibility features, including live closed captions, automatic transcriptions, keyboard shortcuts, and screen reader support.

Keyboard Shortcuts and Screen Reader Settings

Live transcription instructions and additional third-party caption service options are available here. If the host has not enabled auto-transcription in the meeting, participants can also select the Live Transcript CC button to request Auto-transcription be enabled by the host. Presently, Zoom’s live transcription only supports English. Individual attendees can turn off subtitles by clicking the Live Transcript button in the Toolbar and choosing Hide Subtitles. Participants will begin seeing the subtitles at the bottom of the Zoom window.

Zoom offers a host of accessibility features that extend flexible options to meeting hosts and participants.
